{"id":1189,"date":"2026-04-13T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeancentre.wfz.uw.edu.pl\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:46:30","slug":"1189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeancentre.wfz.uw.edu.pl\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Philosophy of\/in Eastern Europe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">The podcast series \u201cPhilosophy of\/in Eastern Europe\u201d aims at a philosophical reexamination of our region. What is Eastern Europe? Where is it located? What categories and concepts do we need while thinking about it, especially in these turbulent times? What are its basic axiological, normative and, more broadly, cultural coordinates? Should we consider it to be just an outdated cultural construct, or rather in positive terms, that is, as specific way(s) of living? We confront these questions, and many others, in our conversations with eminent thinkers from the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authors: Przemys\u0142aw Bursztyka, Marcin Rychter, Jan Molina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b9bfdd4c wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff00;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UDTR96y9EDQ?si=VrcELlSPCR8bRQJA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The category of Eastern Europe is wrapped into many different layers of meaning, most of which are of the colonialist and post-colonialist origins. In consequence Eastern Europe was, for centuries, perceived and experienced as, to express it in ontological terms, an inferior mode of being, as Europe in the mode as if. And it was so experienced also by the people from the region. The category of Eastern Europe was, and still is, like a curse, a stigma, a label to be avoided at all costs. Are there any positive characteristics which can be ascribed to Eastern Europe? What ontological and axiological frameworks seem to be most adequate while thinking about it? Is the category in question of any relevance today? Or perhaps it is the thing of the past?                           <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Przemys\u0142aw Bursztyka in conversation with Marcin Rychter <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recorded on December 22, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: Piotr Baran (www.front-music.pl)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b9bfdd4c wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff00;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3LFYtoI_MZw?si=qB8jVV1kQ-uXXr5Y\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Where are the limits of Europe to be located, especially in the contemporary highly globalized world? Are physical limits\/borders of the primary importance? As Laurynas Peluritis claims the limits of Europe are above all to be understood as a matter of political imagination. Europe is, and was, a set of ideas and principles upon which it has been founded as a normative project. The limits of Europe constitute the line beyond which these ideas and principles do not resonate in any significant way. In this sense Eastern Europe of today can be determined as the frontier of Europe. That is, a cultural space where axiological, sociopolitical, and physical senses of the limit somehow coincide; as the frontier (or the ultimate limit) between Europe and Russia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laurynas Peluritis in conversation with Przemys\u0142aw Bursztyka <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recorded on March 21, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: Piotr Baran (www.front-music.pl)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b9bfdd4c wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff00;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jaKjtXMbiFY?si=k8grQeujw8q4SYQ0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Belarusian Revolution of 2020 was, as Tatiana Shchyttsova claims, the most significant event in the contemporary Belarusian history. And it was (and is) so for many reasons. How can this event be conceptualized in philosophical terms? What are its essential characteristics and long-lasting effects? How can it be related to other similar events which have taken place in the region over the past few decades? To what extent can it be called the revolution? Are there any reasons to consider this event as highly important not only for Belarusians but also for Eastern Europe, and Europe in general? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tatiana Shchyttsova in conversation with Przemys\u0142aw Bursztyka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recorded on January 17, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: Piotr Baran (www.front-music.pl)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b9bfdd4c wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff00;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHzuhuRNhs0?si=U2OE6B3-cIAMdb-J\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine occupies a very special place within Eastern Europe. A space where its tensions and paradoxes, cultural richness and historical misfortunes have been most clearly visible. What are the basic historical-cultural coordinates of Ukraine\u2019s identity? What constitutes a specific ethos of Ukrainian people, and how is it reflected in these dark moments of the brutal Russian war of aggression? What decides about specifically polyphonic and poly-archic character of Ukrainian culture? Does the thesis that Ukraine exists not thanks to history or in the history, but rather despite it (A. Bondar) adequately describe the specificity of Ukrainian historical experience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volodymyr Yermolenko in conversation with Przemys\u0142aw Bursztyka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recorded October 10, 2025 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: Piotr Baran (www.front-music.pl)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b9bfdd4c wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff00;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4dtOMsFO-7I?si=RuvtZTFw7LsGQjGr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 5<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia\u2019s brutal invasion on Ukraine still poses a challenge to our thinking. How are we to understand and conceptualize it philosophically? Yevhen Bystrytsky claims that the key concept here is that of existential war, that is, a war whose aim is not territorial conquest, but rather the destruction of the very existence of a particular nation and culture. The latter, seen through the lens of Heidegger\u2019s fundamental ontology, is conceived as \u201cbeing-of-the-cultural-world\u201d \u2013 that is, a specifically determined way of living. Following Taylor, MacIntyre and Hegel we can understand the cultural world in terms of a localized ethical life constituted by concrete values and norms. In this perspective the Russian war against Ukraine is to be understood as a war between the cultural worlds \u2013 a clash of cultures. This perspective clearly challenges (post)Kantian liberal dream of a cosmopolitan community of nations and peoples based on mutual recognition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yevhen Bystrytsky in conversation with Marcin Rychter and Jan Molina <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Recorded October 10, 2025 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: Piotr Baran (www.front-music.pl)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b9bfdd4c wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff00;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f6HO6SyBoKc?si=n5JC621OHYpeZbW-\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 6<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eastern Europe is, to state the trivial, a cultural space saturated with history. For centuries, it was the stage for horrific events: genocide, mass deportations, and the brutal debasement of entire nations, ethnicities, and social groups. Some of these events were caused by external forces, other were the effects of clashes between the peoples inhabiting the region. Thus, it is a space wrapped in many layers of unexamined, collective, and transgenerational traumas. The more they are invisible the more remain operative. Can they be healed? What are the methods and prospects for achieving reconciliation between the peoples of the region? And what role philosophy can and should play in the process of detraumatizing Eastern Europe? Gintautas Ma\u017eeikis claims that the starting point of any serious reflection on our region is a fundamental distinction between the historical truth and social justice. It is from here that we can move toward self-recognition and mutual recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gintautas Ma\u017eeikis in conversation with Przemys\u0142aw Bursztyka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: Piotr Baran (www.front-music.pl)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<!-- NIE USUWAJ TEGO KODU \u2013 odpowiada za automatyczne dopasowanie wysoko\u015bci iframe -->\n\n<script>\nfunction sendHeight() {\n  const height = document.body.scrollHeight;\n  parent.postMessage({ height: height }, \"*\");\n}\n\nwindow.addEventListener(\"load\", sendHeight);\nwindow.addEventListener(\"resize\", sendHeight);\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy of\/in Eastern Europe The podcast series \u201cPhilosophy of\/in Eastern Europe\u201d aims at a philosophical reexamination of our region. 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